Free culture, Free society.
This week the lecture was about free culture and free society with the key words: community, collabration and choice. Adam Muir hold the lecture and explained to us how the copyright works. I think many of us where a bit shocked over how it is so stricted that people coild actually go to jail if we use someones software without "paying" so the creators will give us premission to use it. For example when we go out to the stores to buy a new computer we often buy the office package to install word etc, and we often pay like 200 dollars for this. There is also a lot of free software that anyone can use and give away without being put in jail for it. This belongs to the public, and the middle between the free and not free is called creative commons, Adam explained to us. This is made to calm the copyright laws down, but not removing it and this opens up to collabration (one of our keywords) in the online community.
Adam also mentioned a site they have here in Australia for creative commons: http://creativecommons.org.au/
As he explained to us here can people who create their own work demand to not have so strict copyrights to the distrubution of their product. Of course the owner has to have some credit for it, but the owner decide how he/shes work is put out there.
We all have a choice when it comes to the internet and the software. We are allowed to use free software or the software we buy at the stores with our computer for example. Free software is easily found on the internet and many people uses it. Why pay a lot of money for something when you can get something that is just as good for free.
Tutorial activity.
1. What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?
As I understood after being in Adams lecture creative commons is a not for profit organisastion that gives licences so peoples ordinary work can be used by others. As I have mentioned in earlier post I am really not a big compuer person, I hardly know how to turn it on. And Facebook, hotmail and google is teh only thing I usually uses. In my University student life I like to use books and other reviews as sources because I know there is a lot of non serious things online, and I think it is hard to find what I am looking for. And I am going to be a teacher, so I don`t see how creative commons would be relevant to my studies or future jobs. But I think it was interesting to learn about it.
2.Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.
I did some search around the internet and came across a list over work created by creative commons licences on Wikipedia. One of these is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Library_of_Science.
"The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. It launched its first journal, PLoS Biology, in October 2003 and has steadily created another seven journals".
There is several other listing as well on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_available_under_a_Creative_Commons_License.
3. Find an academic article which discusses creative commons using a database or online journal. Provide a link to and a summary of the article.
4. Have a look at Portable Apps (a pc based application) – provide a brief description of what it is and how you think this is useful.
The search online gave me this link to a webpage: http://portableapps.com/. They explain on this page that portable apps is: "PortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). The entire platform is open source built around an open format that any hardware or software provider can use". This means that portable apps is a software that is downloaded to be used on any of the listings below, and it is very useful for anybody who does not want to drag their computer along all the time.
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